OAS SECRETARY GENERAL AND THE VICE-PRESIDENT OF COLOMBIA TO OPEN HEMISPHERIC ANTI-CORRUPTION CONFERENCE

The Secretary General of the OAS, Jose Miguel Insulza and the Vice-President of Colombia, Angelino Garzón, will open the “Second Conference on the Progress and Challenges in Hemispheric Cooperation against Corruption” to be held in Cali, Colombia, on June 21 and 22, 2011.

This event, organized by the OAS General Secretariat, through the Department of Legal Cooperation of the Secretariat for Legal Affairs, with the support of the Government of Colombia, through its Ministry of External Relations and the Presidential Program for Modernization, Efficiency, Transparency and the Fight against Corruption, will include dialogue and discussion panels with international experts in areas such as: the protection of whistleblowers of acts of corruption; sworn statements of interest; civil society participation and the responsibility of the private sector in the fight against corruption, as well as training initiatives and useful tools for the prevention of this serious problem.

The program for the event and an informative bulletin are available at the Anticorruption Portal of the Americas.

What is the MESICIC?

The Mechanism For Follow-up on the Implementation of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption, known as MESICIC for its Spanish acronym, is a tool to support the development of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption through cooperation between States Parties.

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